In South Africa, around 200 sex workers took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to demand prostitution be decriminalised. "This is what I wear to wo
Sex workers: #FunkItImWalking protest renews calls for decriminalisation
Sex workers and supporters joined the #FunkItImWalking protest in Johannesburg Thursday, calling for the decriminalisation of sex work.
“For as long as the state criminalises sex workers, who are adults working to sustain their families, there is no freedom,” says Katlego Rasebitse of Sisonke sex workers advocacy group.
He joined about 80 people from various sex workers’ rights groups and supporters who gathered at the Beyers Naude Square in Johannesburg for the #FunkItImWalking on Thursday.
They walked to Constitution Hill singing struggle songs and chanting “Funk it I’m walking! Let’s walk to freedom”, drawing the attention of bystanders in the inner city. The walk was organised as a collaboration between Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Sisonke and the Asijiki Coalition.
Around 200 sex workers took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to demand prostitution be decriminalised. But the country's prostitution laws date back to the apartheid era and punish sex workers and their clients.